Would You Rather

Surface of the ocean or anywhere from the deepest trench up?

Surface, no brainer, I can swim for 30s. Below the surface, you'll be like the surfaced blob fish before the end of the first month.

30s per day of mild-to-moderate discomfort for 5 years, or working an average of 6 hours per day for virtually my entire life.

This was clearly written by someone with an intense and irrational fear of the sea. Nothing's doing shit to you in 30 seconds. Most creatures wouldn't even register your presence quickly enough to even think about doing anything.

100%. I'll take my chances with the mostly empty ocean for a few years over dealing with capitalism trying to kill me for 40+ more years for the crime of being poor.

As long as it's survivable, piece of cake. Very unlikely to be eaten, freeze to death, etc in 30 seconds and if it's unbearable 50 skips. Too easy unless it's at any depth. Then it's far more likely to die. Way more volume than surface area.

Surface of the ocean? So, no chance of randomly arriving at submarine-crushing depths?

Hell yes. In fact I'd probably pay for the experience 🤣

Take it. No question. Trades every other insecurity for just one somewhat predictable event.

as long as i spawn on the surface then it's fine.

if the locations are random, chances are it'll be in the middle of the ocean/sea, far away from any dangerous cliffs.

and as I get the money upfront, if I die, my loved ones will get it, so it isn't that bad

So you're absolutely going to be killed after you are teleported into a statistically likely depth that has enormous water pressure.

Random part sounds like the monkey's paw part to me. Random spot on the surface, not bad. Random part including underwater? Sure, you can hold your breath, but there could be a large pressure differential. Your ears word also suffer. I don't think that's long enough to risk the bends etc but there's a lot more depth than there is surface.

30 seconds a day for only 5 years... That's 912.5 minutes, or just over 15 hours. Less than a typical work week to tread water for a few seconds.

Can I bring a camera?

Wait, do you get paid immediately? Or do you get paid when your ocean tour concludes on the 1825th day?

Because it would be tedious as fuck to have to still work every day during that time while enduring daily ocean trauma (and potentially have an unrelated accident and subsequently invalidate all my effort up to that point).

Also, like some other people mentioned: is it a random part of the ocean in a survivable area? I imagine this would strictly mean the surface of the ocean wherever you end up. Certain depths would be instant death and I don’t know how the physics work with teleporting from deep ocean back to the surface, but I assume it’s the perfect recipe for spontaneously contracting the bends

Sounds like a good alarm clock.

Can I choose a different time on weekends and holidays?

Does it take daylight savings into account?

It says I come back dry... does it clean me too? Can it replace a shower, is what I'm getting at..?

Sounds kind of easy with the thermal suit involved

Sure! Set it for first thing in the morning. It'll wake me up better than any alarm and I can wash off the sea water and start my day!

The ocean is BIG. Chance of something big enough to be interested in you discovering you and deciding to eat you in 30 seconds is minuscule.

Sharks aren't mindless chomping machines.

Cthulhu might be problematic, though.

Isn't the vast majority of the open ocean effectively lifeless? 9/10 times you'd probably not even be within a mile of anything bigger than plankton.

Is it always at the surface of the ocean? Not at the bottom where the pressure will kill me, or unexpectedly submerged so I breathe water and die? Then yes, yes, yes. I will take those odds and consider it a very reasonable retirement plan, and an incredible hourly wage.

ETA I would think the biggest risk is data loss from so many teleportations. The sea is so big and empty that if it's literally random the odds of appearing inside the wall of a ship or in the mouth of a shark does seem less likely than being mowed down by a car on my way to work (same 30 minutes a day total riding back and forth) for a much bigger payout.

Random part of the ocean: any day, you can arrive in the middle of a storm, get crushed by a massive wave on nearby rocks (or ice, or floating debris) and die in an instant.

You can arrive in a patch of human garbage and be stabbed by metal or wood, or swallow petrol or oil, and return wounded to death.

You can land in the spot where orcas are fighting, or a white whale is just splashing and be killed there and then.

You can land in front of a cruiseship as it arrives at full speed and be knocked dead on the spot.

I don't know why people aren't more terrified of the ocean.

You should be terrified of the ocean.

Random part of the ocean, including crushing depth? This needs some clarification.

Into a random part of the ocean, you say?

Does into include the bottom of the Mariana Trench, perhaps?

If so... my answer is nope.

I can tread water for over 30 minutes, 30 seconds is nothing. Even if there is a storm, just hold your breath for 30s. Sure, unpleasant. Worth it.

Assuming it's always at the surface of course. Deep sea pressure would be a death sentence.

The critical thing is that you get to choose the time. So you simply schedule it for just before you get in the shower every day.

Close your eyes and hold your breath, quick 30 seconds plunge, return to find yourself in the shower so everything gets washed away. There are people with too much money, who'd pay for that kind of thing. Much of the ocean is completely empty anyway.

Or (and this is a bit dark) you donate 49.5 million to charity, take the 50 skip days immediately, have a very nice holiday with the 500k, then kill yourself on day 51 safe in the knowledge you've left a lasting legacy and done more to help others than most could ever hope to. Probably be able to cram a better life in those 50 days than many will be able to fit in 50 years too.

random part of the ocean

At 2000 meter depth...

Mr. Beast: Taking notes.

Take the deal. Donate almost all of the money to good causes because $100 million is far more than necessary to live a no-worries (money) life.

Even if I die in the ocean, I will die knowing that I did good in this life.

I don't think you can drown in 30 seconds?

So, just don't get eaten. How hard can it be?

I'm thalassophobic, would 100% have a heart attack and die day one. This is essentially asking if I would trade my life for $100,000,000 to donate to whatever charities I want.

Deal

I agree to these terms as long as my family can keep the money if I die

This is easy. Just be in a hospital or whatever every day so when you come back, even if you royally messed up and took a bunch of water in your lungs, they can easily get it out quickly. With 50 skip days? Yeah just take like the first 3 and get good swimming lessons and arrange for a hospital or doctor or whatever to be ready to revive you. This is all assuming we mean a random point on the surface of the ocean, not under it. The odds of ever being somewhere where something other than the water being the problem are so miniscule. The post even says you get a thermal suit.

Compromise. I'll take 50 million and we skip the ocean. Make it a bathtub.

No one's talking about popping up in a North Sea storm or teleporting into Cape Horn or the Antarctic Sea. I'd be practicing holding my breath under punishing circumstances. But yes, I'd go for it in a second.

You could easily make enough money to support yourself just on gambling whether you live or die! Imagine a show where Shalafi disappears for 30-seconds, pops back in and gets interviewed. People would watch that like clockwork.

For those who take it, for what amount would you not take it